The Speakers (Voice Box) from Chris Purdie on Vimeo.
Twenty-eight tracks, sixteen channels, two hundred-twelve speakers, ninety-six amplifiers, computer, and wire.
Duration: 15 minute loop.
SCULPTURE/PAINTING/INSTALLATION with SOUND
The Speakers (Voice Box) from Chris Purdie on Vimeo.
Artists: Chris Purdie & Marc Bradley Johnson
Exhibition Dates: 4 December - 7 January
Opening Reception: Friday 4 December 6:00 - 8:00pm
Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll
Location: Rio Gallery
300 S. 455 W. Salt Lake City
(at the Rio Grande Depot)
Cost: Admission is free to the public
Gallery Contact: Laura Durham
801.533.3582
[ADMISSION]
Art Exhibition of Sound & Motion
Two artists, two cubes, over two hundred speakers, and twelve doors combine to create Admission, the Rio Gallery’s next exhibition in December.
Artists Chris Purdie and Marc Bradley Johnson will be exhibiting two large interactive sculptures next month at Salt Lake City’s Rio Gallery. Purdie’s sculpture is a six-foot cube constructed by stacking over two hundred functioning speakers. Johnson’s sculpture is a seven-foot cube constructed of twelve functioning doors. The audience is invited to interact with these sculptures by listening to the speakers and by walking in and out of the doors.
Admission will be on display December 4 - January 7 with an opening reception in conjunction with Salt Lake City’s Gallery Stroll, Friday December 4 from 6-8pm (free to the public). The Rio Gallery is located in the historic Rio Grande Depot 300 S. 455 W. Salt Lake City (gallery hours are 7am-6pm Monday-Thursday).
Admission utilizes speakers to represent thought or voice and doors to demonstrate access to possibilities or options. Both sculptures involve the patron in a distinctive manner, presenting not only a visual, but also a multi-sensory experience based on perception and consciousness. Purdie’s black speaker cube is referencing sixties Minimalist artist Tony Smith’s Die. Johnson’s door cube was inspired by the philosophies of Antonio Gramsci. Purdie and Johnson were united for this exhibition through the commonalities of their concepts, mediums, and methods of display.
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In The Speakers 003 (Die) project, I am using speakers and sound to further unveil the references to anthropomorphism in Minimalist artist Tony Smith's Die.[1] I am reconstructing Smith’s Die out of black speakers and giving the cube a voice. The dimensions of mine and Smith’s Die correspond to those of the human body as depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's drawing, Vitruvian Man (72x72x72).[2] Both Smith and myself are interested in the ways physical objects, as well as our spatial proximity to those objects, shape our self-perception.[3] My work contributes to this focus on perception by adding a new dimension—sound. This piece, then, will both literally and theoretically delve into the phenomenological essence of man, which I take to be consciousness.
[1] Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood: 1967, (published in Harrison, Charles, P. J. Wood. Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas: 2002) 845.
[2] James Meyer. Minimalism: Phaidon, 2000, 172.
[3] Judith Collins. Sculpture Today: Phaidon Press Inc., 2007, 5.
[4] Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood: 839.
[5] Ibid., 836.